...William V. Spanos © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Eis tin Polis: Istanbul, December 1969 William V. Spanos A boundary is not that at which something stops but, as the Greeks recognized, the boundary is that from which...

... University Press Nâz m Hikmet and the Prose of Communism Nergis Ertürk A nineteen- year- old Nâz m Hikmet (1902 63) embarked on a life- changing journey from Istanbul through Anatolia to Batumi between Janu- ary and September 1921. Like the Iranian poet Abolqasem Lahouti, the Palestinian writer Najati Sidqi...

... tradition Pamuk deploys as a point of refer- ence in his thinking about literary representation renders mimesis. Pamuk provides none of this explicitly to Rose, although it is very much in play in his book Istanbul. Be that as it may, what he does tell Rose in explanation of the title draws acute...

...‐Semitic Western ethnocentrism. The article uncovers an unexpected intertext for the book's second chapter, “Fortunata,” which narrates the birth of figural thinking. It reads this chapter in conjunction with earlier versions of the ending of Mimesis preserved in Auerbach's Istanbul lectures...

... and their constitution by an Islamic philoso- phy of language.9 5. For a historical overview of such measures, see Erik J. Zürcher, Turkey: A Modern His- tory (London: I. B. Tauris, 2004), 21–70. 6. Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar, “Türk Edebiyatı’nda Cereyanlar,” in Edebiyat Üzerine Makale- ler, ed. Zeynep Kerman (Istanbul...

... University Press 2021 national/nationalist discourse hegemony zeitgeist Turkey References Adorno Theodor W. (1964) 2013 . Sahicilik Jargonu [The Jargon of Authenticity] . Istanbul : Metis Yayınları . Aslandas¸ Alper Sedat Bıçakçı Baskın . (1995) 2013 . Popüler...

..., edited by Levent Yılmaz (Istanbul: Santral, 2009), 125. Serin / The Language of Marxism and Language as Such 291 fifty thousand pages long) range widely from critical essays on finance capital, class relations in Turkey, histories of capitalism in England and Japan, and strategies...

...– 2014), the Turkish translator of Karl Marx’s Zur Kritik der politischen Ökono- We thank our contributors for the rich, rigorous, and thought-­provoking exchanges that accompanied the preparation of this special issue. Halil Nalçaoǧlu of Istanbul Bilgi Uni- versity very kindly put us in contact...

... of Armenian studies at Columbia University until 2007 and is currently a visiting professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, in the boundary 2 40:3 (2013) DOI 10.1215/01903659-2367096 © 2013 by Duke University Press 186 boundary 2 / Fall 2013 Department of Cultural Studies. He published six volumes...

..., a practice of unbelief; it is directed, however, not simply at the objects of religious piety but at secular ‘‘beliefs’’ as well, and, at its most ambitious, at all those 1. I have argued this point at some length in Aamir R. Mufti, ‘‘Auerbach in Istanbul: Edward Said, Secular Criticism...

... to the philologist’s phobia of non-Western languages, his reluctance (in contrast to his Istanbul colleague Spitzer) to risk scholarly engagement with cultures falling outside of the Holy Roman Empire. Auer- bach’s relative silence on President Kemal Atatürk’s instigation of modern Turkish—a radical reform...

..., Bakû 1–8 Eylül 1920: Stenoyla Tutulmuş Tutanak, trans. Ali Alev (1975; repr., Istanbul: Koral, 1990). For the phrase quoted from Grigorii Zinovʹev’s speech at the First Congress of the Peoples of the East, see TSD, 80. None of these editions includes the original text of addresses delivered...

... of some trees in order to renovate the main square— Taksim—in the city of Istanbul. The prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdo- ğan, could easily have reduced the tension by adopting a conciliatory stance toward the young people, but he chose the opposite policy. Clashes between the protesters...

...- Dirlik / Intervention / Twin Offspring of Empire 3 ence and international relations from Bogazici University in Istanbul, which still bears traces of its US missionary origins in the second half of the nine- teenth century. Author of studies on Islamic politics, international strategy...

... that, even had he wanted to, he could not have made use of the available scholarly resources, first of all because he was in wartime Istanbul when the book was written and no Western research libraries were accessible for him to consult, sec- ond because had he been able to use references from...

... adulthood, in late Victorian Liverpool and London as well as late Ottoman Istanbul, had British nationality through his father, and finally, spent much of his working life as a clerk in the Ministry of Public Works in colonial Alexandria—it seems uncontroversial enough to say that he was a subject...

..., we see the upper class, the love of a rich inhabitant of Istanbul, and the love of a male. It’s very possessive love. What I discovered as I was writing the novel was that the more men like this love, the more posses- sive they become. And the more possessive they become, the more sup- pressed...

... in Istanbul, and has published in cultural journals in Turkey and across Europe. Richard Purcell is an assistant professor in the Literary and Cultural Studies Pro- gram at Carnegie Mellon University. His field of study is late nineteenth twentieth and twenty-­first-­century American literature...

... 2011). In fall 2010, he served as the first Liang Qichao Memorial Distinguished Visit- ing Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. His most recent publication is Kure- sellesmenin Sonu mu? (End of globalization?) (Istanbul: Ayrinti Publishers, 2012). Harry Harootunian is the Max Palevsky...

..., in StoryQuarterly. He has published essays and jour- nalism in boundary 2, Sewanee Review, Poetry, and the Wall Street Journal, and his essay, “Politics 2013,” was among the winners of the 2013 Hazlitt Essay Prize. Murat Belge is professor of English and comparative literature at Istanbul Bilgi Uni- versity...